My Veterans Day Tourney Experiences

Garbad, on Nov 20 2012 - 02:58, said: Thanks to WG posting replays before the tourney was over (lol?), we knew exactly what SIMP would be running and where their scout/arty liked to go. We knew they would run 3x 50 100, a VK28, and a Su-26. We also knew SIMP's reputation for hard camping (like most teams this late in the tourney). This shook things up for us, as the light/arty allowed SIMP to camp and reset cap without risking an unfavorable engagement. This meant that the tables turned -- this round, we would be forced to fight on unfavorable terms or give SIMP the ability to camp/draw at will.
Despite this, we had a fatal flaw -- hubris. We thought that if we simply mirrored their build, we could win based on player skill. We hadn't played the build, but despite this we loaded it up and rolled out. Almost immediately, their practice showed. We took hits early by tanks prezoomed, then lost the initiative. And three games in a row, when the press came, we made ragged charges into an opponent waiting for us with superior focus fire.